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Kevin Sullivan, is Chairman Of the Washington Program. An independent consultant who has a stung focus on education reform Kevin is a former Senior Advisor and Speechwriter to US. Secretary of Education Richard Riley (1993-2001). Kevin worked on a wide range of issues during his tenure at the Dept. of Education including teacher quality, reading, school modernization and religion in public schools. Kevin created and helped to launch the first ever ‘International Education Week" a series of events that continues to be supported by the U.S. Dept of Education and the U.S. Dept of State. Kevin participated in two Presidential trips Northern Ireland during the Clinton Administration in 1998 and 2000.
Prior to joining Secretary’s Riley staff, Sulivan worked for fourteen years for members of Congress including Rep. Barbara Jordan, Rep. Les Asapin, Rep. Edward Feighan, Sen. Gary Han and the Senate Democratic Policy Committee. Kevin participated in three national presidential campaigns and helped to elect Brendan Byrne, the Governor of New Jersey in the early 1970's, He is probably best known for drafting Cong. Barbara Jordan’s historic Keynote Address to the 1976 Democratic National Convention.
Kevin is also Chairman of the Board of the Washington-Ireland Program for Service and Leadership (WIP), a member of the Board of MCIP, a non-profit 501c(3) which supports the Bell Multicultural High School of Washington, D.C. and Chess Challenge in D.C., a non-profit that is bringing chess to D.C. public schools. Kevin is a graduate of the Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University and lives in Bethesda, Maryland with his wife and three children.
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